Congratulations again to Russell for winning our Christmas Bauble Contest with his mini origami stars. We loved the idea of making them out of museum leaflets! Since Museum140 was the organiser of the contest, none of the team were eligible to enter a bauble or to win the voters’ prize, but of course we still […]

We received 14 entries from 6 different countries to our Christmas Bauble Contest, six of which are now hanging on our tree (thanks to the senders!) and of the others we received photographs. Although decorating them with a museum theme was not a mandatory part of the rules, we were pleased about the many museum-y […]

Our Museum140 Advent microsite is now live! From 1-24 December, there will be a new museum for you to discover in our Advent Calendar gallery every day, with recommendations both from the Museum140 team and previous participants in our Adopt-a-Museum project. Adopt-a-Museum is taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period, but we’re […]

For the last time this year, we’re answering another ‘Ask Us Anything’ question. Since we announced our Christmas Bauble Contest, quite a few people asked we we’d limited the participation to 20 people. The reason is that Museum140 is entirely non profit and we pay for everything out of our own pocket. Buying the baubles, […]